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9 Fun Spelling Games For Kids That You Can Do At Home

If you think all spelling games are rigid and boring, think again! At HOMER, we’re all about building confident learners ready for school and life, and we believe this can be done in fun and exciting ways!

From sneaky switching letters to jumping across letter lily pads, we’ve selected our favorite spelling games to share with you to make your child’s spelling journey an enjoyable one.

In this article, we’ll break down the importance of spelling in early learning, including the stages of spelling development.

We’ll also tell you about nine fun, simple spelling games that you can play at home with minimal equipment required. Let’s get started!

Why Is Spelling Important In Early Learning?

Spelling development is a critical skill in early learning for many reasons.

Spelling is a lifelong skill that your child will use every day, no matter the career they choose later in life, so it’s important that we build strong, confident spellers from early childhood.

As children learn to spell and write with higher accuracy, it makes their writing easier to read — not only for the adults and peers in their lives but also for themselves. This increases confidence in children as spellers and writers.

Additionally, strengthening your child’s spelling abilities assists in both reading and writing skill development.

Phonetically reading and spelling are connected in that reading involves blending sounds into words and spelling involves separating sounds to write a word.

Taking advantage of this skill reversibility is a plus for early readers and will help your child simultaneously build skills in reading and spelling.

The Stages Of Spelling Development

The five stages of spelling development are the precommunicative stage, the semiphonetic stage, the phonetic stage, the transitional stage, and the correct stage.

Here’s a closer look at each of these stages.

Precommunicative Stage

The precommunicative stage is the first phase of spelling development. If your child falls into this group, they don’t yet understand letter-sound correspondence, which is the relationship between written and spoken language.

Children in the precommunicative stage also haven’t yet grasped the difference between upper and lowercase letters, and they may not know the entire alphabet. But that doesn’t mean they’re not trying to learn those letters.

At this stage, children are usually scribbling. Sometimes those scribbles look very similar to our alphabet. Other times, not so much.

All this scribbling and letter learning helps prepare them for the next exciting stage!

Semiphonetic Stage

The big milestone of this stage is that a child begins to understand letter-sound correspondence.

Children arrive at this milestone by learning how to connect written letters to the sounds they make. For instance, for the letter “p,” they may say “puh” to indicate the sound it makes in words.

Another interesting element of this phase is that children may ignore vowels when spelling words. Instead of writing “because,” they may spell it as “bkz.” The child hears the /b/ and the /k/ but attributes the /k/ to K, not C, and the buzz sound for S, which is almost a Z sound.

While it can be tempting to try to correct your child, that shouldn’t be the focus at this stage. Instead, celebrate their progress because this phase won’t last long.

Phonetic Stage

You will notice further development of letter-sound correspondence at this stage. Your child will also show an improved understanding of consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words, such as pan, bit, dog, cat, etc.

Children at this spelling stage will begin to understand letter chunks. This is when we connect more than one letter to create a specific sound. For example, ch, sh, br, etc.

The phonetic stage is a major milestone in your child’s spelling development. They are on their way to understanding the basic spelling rules of the English language!

Transitional Stage

Children show an improved ability to handle decodable and non-decodable words at this stage.

Decodable words follow the regular spelling rules and patterns of the English language. Therefore, it’s easier to sound them out when spelling. Non-decodable words are different because they don’t follow the regular patterns of our language (done instead of dun, was instead of wus, give instead of giv, etc.).

As your child’s phonetic instincts improve, they’ll get better at spelling decodable words by sounding them out.

When your child doesn’t know a word, they may rely on their ability and understanding of the structure of words. But they may still incorrectly spell some words. For example, they might spell “egul” instead of “eagle.”

Since non-decodable words (i.e., sight words) don’t follow regular patterns, children may eventually learn them through memorization.

Correct Stage

When your child has reached this stage, they understand the basic spelling rules of the English language. This includes dealing with silent vowels and consonants, prefixes and suffixes, and alternative and irregular spellings.

Children can comfortably handle many words at this phase and may even notice their own spelling mistakes.

With these stages in mind, the games we’ve selected below are geared toward children in the semiphonetic, phonetic, and transitional stages.

This means we’ll be focusing on developing your child’s skills in using consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words, sight words, phonetic spelling, and letter-sound correspondences.

Keep reading to find out how to play our favorite spelling games!

9 Fun Spelling Games You Can Do At Home

Kindergarten Spelling Games

Throughout kindergarten, your child will begin to learn CVC words that are phonetically regular, such as bed, kid, top, and bug.

When choosing spelling games for your child in this age group, it’s best to stick to activities that include these types of words to build confidence and enhance what they’re learning at school.

Try out our favorites below!

1) Letter Switch

For this exercise, you’ll need letters written on post-it notes, magnetic letters, or some letters cut out from a magazine — whatever is most easily accessible for you.

Starting with a CVC word such as “cat”, have your child change out the first letter to create a new word, such as “pat”. It’s best to start with first-letter changes, as most children will find this the easiest way to learn.

Once your child becomes more familiar and confident with CVC words, you can increase the level of difficulty by having them change the last letters of the word (changing “pat” to “pan”, for example) and then introduce changing vowels, so “pan” becomes “pin”.

Start with a small goal — five correct letter changes equals a win, for example.

Eventually, as your child becomes stronger with their letter changes, you can increase the number of correct changes needed to win the game.

2) Create-A-Word

Start by gathering the post-it notes, magnetic letters, or cut-out letters that you would have used in our first game.

Pick out three letters in no particular order that create a CVC word, and then have your child create a word using the letters you’ve chosen.

If your child is having trouble spelling a word using the letters given, try first putting the vowel in place. This way, your child only needs to fill in the beginning and ending consonants.

Ready to increase the difficulty level of this game? Try picking out six letters and have your child spell out two words!

3) Visualize The Word

As we help our children with their spelling, it’s essential to help them visualize the words so that spelling really comes alive for them. Fortunately, spelling activities can make learning to spell creative and fun!

For this activity, you’ll need a few magazines, a pair of child-safe scissors, a glue stick, craft paper, a marker, and some crayons.

Start by introducing your child to a CVC word, like pan. Then, hand them the magazines and ask them to find the letters p, a, and n (you may want to help them look for larger words in the headlines or titles so that they’re easier to glue).

After finding these letters, have your child cut them out and paste them onto their craft paper. Once they’ve completed this, have them search for images of pans to add to their masterpiece.

Creating this art piece can help children focus on each letter individually, and the visual representations of the word may also help them remember what the term actually means.

First Grade Spelling Games

As your first grader is learning to solidify CVC words and phonetically spell words with beginning and ending consonant blends, it’s important to find spelling games that help reinforce these lessons.

We’ve chosen our favorite games to help your first grader reinforce phonetically regular words and memorize crucial sight words that aren’t phonetically regular. Take a look below!

4) Letter Removal

Using magnetic letters or a chalkboard, select and spell out three words that your child is learning to spell.

Have your child close their eyes and take away one letter from each word. Scramble up the removed letters and once your child opens their eyes, have them remake each word.

Once they’re an expert, try taking away two letters from each word, then three, and so on. You could also add in time limits once your child is ready so they can try to beat their personal best!

5) Poster Words

Using the Dolch Word List or your child’s writing, select a word that your child is often misspelling or would like to learn to spell.

For more advanced spellers, try selecting a few words at a time to watch their progress bloom!

On a sheet of paper or cardboard (one per word), draw five large checkboxes at the top and write the word in large bubble letters in the middle to create a poster.

Next, spend some time decorating the letters with colorful markers, stickers, glitter — anything you want!

Once per day, have your child spell out their chosen word without looking at the poster. Each time they’re able to spell it correctly, they get to add a giant check mark to one of the five boxes.

After they’ve filled all five boxes, it’s time to create a new poster! You can even hole-punch each poster once it’s completed and store it in a loose-leaf binder, watching it get thicker and thicker as your child masters more words.

6) Unscramble The Word

For this fun game, all you need are fridge magnets or alphabet blocks.

Choose three words, and scramble their letters with the magnets or blocks. Then, have your child unscramble these words by placing the letters in the correct order.

For an increased challenge, ask them to complete this task within a certain time limit. You can even start with simple words and increase the difficulty as their spelling skills improve.

If you have multiple children, this can also be a great competitive game — the first player to unscramble all their words wins!

Second Grade Spelling Games

Your second grader now knows words with less frequent letter-sound correspondences, such as oy, oi, ou, and aw sounds. This means you can select a variety of age-appropriate words in the spelling games you play to help expand their vocabulary.

Three of our favorite spelling games for second graders are below!

7) Build A Spelling Snowman

This game is just like the traditional Hangman game, but more kid-friendly!

Start by choosing a word in your head, and on a whiteboard or piece of paper, draw the correct number of lines for each letter to be filled in as you play. For example, the word “fright” would have six blank spaces to be filled in with each correct guess.

Have your speller guess what letter might be in the word and fill in a blank with a letter on each correct guess. For each incorrect guess, gradually draw a snowman piece by piece until you run out of additions.

This could start with a large circle for the snowman’s body, a smaller circle for his midsection, and an even smaller circle for the head.

It’s up to you how generous you’d like to be as to how many extra parts the snowman has, but remember to draw in his sticks for arms and fingers, buttons, carrot nose, and of course, his smile!

This fun spelling game can also be played in reverse so that with each correct answer, you’re slowly building the snowman.

8) Leap Across The Spelling Lily Pads

Start this game by writing out each letter of the alphabet on separate pieces of paper to act as your lily pads.

Place the lily pads in any order on the floor and choose a word for your child to spell, saying it out loud. Start with shorter words, and then slowly build up to more complex words.

Once your child knows the word to spell, they can hop like a frog from one lily pad to another until the word is correctly spelled out.

You can add time limits or a points system

Start this game by writing out a select number of letters of the alphabet on separate pieces of paper to act as your lily pads.

Place the lily pads in any order on the floor and choose a word for your child to spell, saying it out loud. Start with shorter words, and then slowly build up to more complex words.

Once your child knows the word to spell, they can hop like a frog from one lily pad to another until the word is correctly spelled out.

You can add time limits or a points system if your child is more advanced, and keeping track of their achievements makes this game even more fun!

9) Spell And Toss

All you need to play this game is a ball that you can easily toss around (e.g., beach ball, tennis ball, etc.). If you’re playing inside, a balled-up sock might be better.

Start by having your family stand in a circle. Then, the first player has to call out a word and toss the ball to the next player, who needs to say the first letter of the word.

When that player is done, they will toss the ball to the next person, who needs to say the second letter, and so on. When a player gets a letter wrong, they can toss the ball to the next player, who will try a different letter.

The player to say the last correct letter gets to decide the next word to spell. As your child’s vocabulary and spelling skills improve, you can pick the pace up by requiring each player to name their letter within a certain time limit.

This is also a great way to practice for the spelling tests your child will likely have once they reach second grade.

Effective Strategies To Help Your Child Spell

In addition to playing spelling games, here are some tips to help your child improve their spelling.

Focus On Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic awareness is a person’s ability to identify and manipulate sounds, specifically phonemes.

A phoneme is the smallest possible unit of sound in a language. Every word in our language is made up of phonemes, and we blend them to help us form words.

For example, “dog” has the phonemes d/o/g. So, we blend these small sounds (i.e., phonemes) to pronounce the complete word.

Understandably, children who haven’t yet mastered this skill will have some trouble spelling accurately. That’s why helping your child with phonemic awareness is a great place to start.

If your child is struggling with some words, you can read them out loud slowly by focusing on each phoneme and then speed up to say the entire word. For example, c/a/t. Cat!

Practice With Rhyming Words

Rhymes are a critical component of phonological awareness. But they deserve their spot on our list because of how effective they can be in helping children with their spelling.

That’s because a child who knows how to spell the word ball will find it easy also to spell all, call, fall, hall, etc.

You can check out this blog for effective rhyming strategies you can use at home.

Allow For Phonetic Spelling

This tip is important, particularly for younger spellers. Allow your child to spell a word out according to what it sounds like to them.

You can achieve this by first encouraging them to say each letter as they spell. For example, /c/ /a/ /t/ for cat or /p/ /i/ /n/ for pin (later advancing to /s/ /p/ /i/ /n/ for spin).

Once they’ve spelled it out, review it together while focusing on each letter. You can then talk about which letters need to be changed for the word to be correct.

Practice The Chunks In Words

As highlighted above, when we talk about chunks, we’re referring to the grouping of more than one letter together to produce a specific sound. The English language has many, such as ple, br, ch, sh, all, as well as word families such as ish, ang, ack, etc.

Allow your child to practice writing words that have the same chunks (e.g., child, chair, chain, champ, etc.) so they can familiarize themselves with the word families — groups of words with a typical pattern or feature.

The next time your child encounters a word that begins with a “ch” sound, they’ll be better equipped to spell it correctly.

Make Regular Reading A Priority

This is one of our favorite tips!

Reading has many incredible benefits for children, such as cognitive and language development, improving listening skills, and developing a child’s imagination. So, make this a priority by having a variety of books that you can read together.

While reading, remember to emphasize words with specific patterns or rules. For example, if you come across the word ring, remind your young learner of the other words with an “ing” sound, like wing, sing, king, etc.

By doing this, you help your child recognize similar pronunciations and spellings more easily when they see them in the future.

Make Spelling Fun And Simple With HOMER!

With the spelling games above and some practice, your child can improve their spelling skills while having fun in the process!

One way to make spelling fun is to use our Explore Letters Kit. It is a perfect addition to your exploration of spelling, from CVC words for kindergarteners to more advanced spelling words to develop your second grader’s skills.

Packed with fun activities and expert tips and instructions, our Explore Letters Kit will take your child on a spelling journey like no other!

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Free Online Spelling Games for Kids

We have fun, free online spelling games for kids in addition to the practice and test sections of our website. These interactive spelling games can be played with our imported lists or play spelling games with your own words.

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Spelling has never been more fun! Please let us know what kind of games you would like to play on this site by emailing us at [email protected] or by posting on the Home Spelling Words Facebook page. These are the perfect games to help with spelling words or lists assigned by your school. Practice as much as you like to improve your spelling test grades.

Crazy Fish Game

Can you help Crazy Fish eat the correctly spelled words on surfboards? Test your spelling skills by making your own spelling lists or by using our spelling lists. If you have children who hate spelling, then this is the kind of spelling help you need. Enter easy words, hard to spell words, holiday lists or anything you like. Crazy Fish is just one of the many new spelling games for kids that we’ve recently developed. Use these fun word games for students to improve your child's spelling or even vocabulary.

Spelling Memory Game

Memory Games are always a favorite, and this interactive spelling game will keep your children entertained. Your student will get to know and recognize their spelling lists through playing this memory game with their own spelling words from school or with our grade appropriate spelling lists developed by teachers. This is one of our many new great spelling word activities for kids.

King Cactus Game (Hangman Spelling Game)

Our fun King Cactus game is a hangman style game. The object of the game is to save the fish from getting caught by the fisherman! Select a letter that you think is in the word and if it is wrong, bits of a fish start to appear on the hook. If you can't guess the word, then the whole fish in on the line and you are caught and end up in the fisherman's bucket!

Mouse Maze Spelling Game

Use the mouse maze game to practice spelling. Help Herman the mouse navigate toward each cheese. Once Herman touches the cheese, your student will hear the spelling word and will be prompted to spell the word to continue. If there are a lot of words on the spelling list, you may find yourself helping Herman through multiple mazes until you've reached the end.

Word Scramble Game

If you're looking for fun spelling activities for kids then the Word Scramble Game was made for you! We take your spelling words and scramble them up and you have to guess the words by selecting letters. If the letter is right, it sticks, but if it is wrong, you have to keep trying. It's a unique way to practice spelling with an engaging spelling game.

Word Chopper Game

Chop Away at Your Spelling Lists until you get all the words right! Word Chopper is another great original interactive spelling game developed by Home Spelling Words. The object of the game is to spell the words correctly until you've spelled them all correctly. Essentially, you whittle away at your spelling list by spelling words right. This is a great way to practice for your weekly spelling tests as you are able to practice as much as you like, while playing a fun game. Spelling practice is never boring when you can play games to learn.

Word Search Game

Use the Word Search Maker to create a word search with your own spelling list. Every time you reset the game it mixes up the words and changes the Word Search so it is fresh and interactive. To play, highlight the words with your mouse and they get crossed off your list until you are done. To mix up the words and play again, simply click the play button.

Fill-in-the-Blank Game

Our Fill-in-the-Blank game is interactive and changes every time! It randomly selects letters to hide. This makes the game different every time you play, so your student can play over and over without getting bored. Just like the test or practice sections, this game checks for capitalization, apostrophes, and even spaces. It's a great way to learn while having fun. You can use your spelling lists from school or use ours. If you are looking for free online games for kids, all of our Fill-in-the-Blank games are completely free to use.

Spelling Soup Game / Word Catcher Game

The Spelling Soup game drops words from your spelling lists. Students must catch the correctly spelled words in the bowl to get points. This game changes every time you play and helps students learn to recognize correctly spelled words versus misspelled words.

Bink Bonk Game

Bink Bonk is a fantastic educational game. The player must use the paddle to hit the purple blocks and they will be prompted to spell one of their spelling words from their list until their entire list is completed.

Children's games for learning English

In the modern world, the popularity of the English language has reached its peak for a long time. The language is considered international, and in many European countries locals speak English. This is a huge advantage for those who love to travel the world.

Many parents today want their children to study at the most prestigious international universities in Europe, the USA, and for this, at least, you need to know English. That is why children have to learn a foreign language from an early age. Of course, on the one hand, this is very good, since kids absorb much more information than adults, but on the other hand, it is quite difficult in terms of learning. When an adult plans to learn a foreign language, he does it consciously, he has a motivation, an incentive. Kids, on the other hand, do not yet realize why they need it and whether they need it at all. But in this situation there is a way out. The most important thing in teaching English to kids is the ability to interest them, involve them in the process, and the most interesting process for little children is a game. That is why this article discusses the main types of children's games for learning English.

It can be said that English learning games for children are the main form of learning a foreign language. They create a relaxed environment in which learning is easier compared to forced teaching methods. During the game, children not only memorize new words, expressions or rules, but also develop attention, memory, thinking, observation and, of course, creativity. The use of games in teaching helps to maintain interest in the English language, and also helps to more easily learn, consolidate and master the lesson material.

Now let's take a closer look at English games for children. They can be used individually or in small groups.

1. Simon says.

A very simple game that is better and more fun to play in a group. The teacher acts as a leader and must give instructions to the guys so that they perform some action. For example, "Simon says: touch your ears!" - “Simon says, touch your ears!”, “Simon says: put your hands on your shoulders!” "Simon says put your hands on your shoulders!" There may be many options here.

2. "Countable - uncountable."

This game was invented on the principle of the game "edible - inedible". The players throw the ball to each other and shout out nouns, and the one who catches the ball must answer whether the object is countable or not. For example, the first player throws the ball and shouts "book", the one who caught the ball should say "countable" or "uncountable". If the player who caught the ball answers correctly, then now he throws the ball and says his word, but if he made a mistake, he simply leaves the game.

3. Crocodile.

Everyone knows this game. Its essence is to explain with gestures the words of the topic that are being passed or have already been passed. Different parts of speech can be used as displayed words, but with babies it is better to try only nouns and verbs to begin with.

4. "Try and guess."

A variation of the game "crocodile", but in this case the children need to explain the word. You can play the game in two ways. The first way is that the student takes one card out of several offered and tries to explain to other students what the word is on the card.

Let's say the word "chair" is written on the card. This concept can be explained as follows: “It’s a piece of furniture” (this is a piece of furniture). "It's not big" (it's small). "It is wooden" (it is wooden). "You can sit on it" (you can sit on it). The explanation doesn't have to be long, complex sentences, on the contrary, it will be more interesting when the student pauses between sentences so that others think a little and scroll through the information in their heads.

The second way is as follows. One student takes a card and looks at what word he came across. His task is only to briefly answer the questions of other guys - yes / no (yes / no). That is, the guessers will try to find out for themselves what is hidden, asking leading questions that can only be answered with “yes” or “no”. For example, the word "ball" (ball) is guessed. To guess this word, you can make the following questions: “Is it big?” (Is it big?), "Is it brown/red/green etc.?" (Is it brown? Red? Green?), "Can you eat it?" (it can be eaten?) and so on. Questions must be asked until the word is guessed.

5. "Guess what I'm doing?"

Another type of Crocodile game, which has a more grammatical focus. The student who guessed the action should depict some process as accurately as possible, and the other guys need to guess what he is doing and say the sentence in English in a certain tense form. For example, the student must show that he is dancing, and the guys need to make a sentence in Present Continuous, therefore, the following will turn out: "He is dancing." - "He is dancing". Which of the students correctly guesses the movement and correctly composes a sentence will be the next one to depict the action.

6. "As much as possible."

This educational game in English will help children learn a large number of new words more easily. It is best for her to divide the students into two teams. The essence of the game is to name as many words of a given topic as possible. For example, the theme "Weather" (weather). Students can name different words and phrases that relate to this topic, and the part of speech can also be any. Such words may include "sunny" (sunny), "wind" (wind), "clouds" (clouds) and so on. The team that will name more words related to this topic will be considered the winner.

7. Compound Word

This game in English is suitable for children who already have a certain vocabulary. The essence of the game is that you need to make a word from three to five words of the same topic, and the next word must begin with the same letter as the previous word ends with. Let's say the teacher asked the topic "Colors" (Colors). The option that can be accepted as an answer is gre Y ello W hite. That is, gray (gray) ends with the letter "y", and the next word "yellow" begins just with the same letter "y". In this way, you can make other words from three to five words, but these words should be of the same subject.

8. "Colors"

The game is very simple, but at the same time interesting. It is better to play it if there are six to eight people in a group. Its purpose is to promote the development of attention and memory, and with the help of it it will be easier for children to remember the names of colors. So, if there is a small variety of colors in the classroom or office where classes are held, then before the game the teacher will need to arrange multi-colored objects. Moreover, the number of items of different colors will be different. Let's say there are 6 people in a group, so you need to choose 6 colors - red (red), blue (blue), white (white), green (green), orange (orange), yellow (yellow). But the number of items of each color should be different, for example, red items can be taken six pieces, blue - five, white - four, green - three, orange - two, and yellow - one. That is, the game is designed for the reaction of children, so that after the teacher’s command to choose an object of a certain color, the guys grab the right thing as quickly as possible, and the one who did not have time is out. As a result, the course of the game will look like this: the teacher gives the command: “Children, take red pencils! Children, take blue balls! Children, take white paper! Children, take green apples! Children, take orange stamps! Children, take yellow books!” The winner is the one who has all six items of different colors.

9. "Get everyone together."

This educational game in English is designed to consolidate words on a specific topic. For example, you can take the themes "At the Zoo" and "On a Farm". The task for the students will be as follows: In one large pile there will be animal toys that need to be distributed into groups - some to the Zoo, others to the Farm. Each student must choose a toy and put it in the right box or box, while naming the animal in English. Let's say he took a cow and said: "It's a cow" (This is a cow). The task can also be slightly complicated by having the student add a sentence about where the animal lives. For example, like this: "It's a cow. It lives on a farm ”(This is a cow. She lives on a farm). And so on until the last toy is in its place.

There can be many variations in this game. You can also distribute the animals according to the countries where they live, or you can choose the shapes and have the students distribute the objects according to their shapes. It all depends on the topic that the students are going through.

10. Snowball.

One of the most popular games in English for schoolchildren, which will force students to be as attentive as possible. At the same time, it is recommended to conduct it when the number of students does not exceed eight people. Words are better to choose one topic so that it is not so difficult. So, the first student says his word, the second repeats this word, then he says his own. The third student needs to first say the word of the first student, then the second, and then add his word and so on. To complicate the task, you can spend two circles. It will look something like this (let's say the theme is "Vegetables" (vegetables):

First student: tomato…
Second student: tomato, potato…
Third student: tomato, potato, cucumber…
Fourth student: tomato, potato, cucumber, cabbage…
Fifth student: tomato, potato, cucumber, cabbage, onion…
Sixth student: tomato, potato, cucumber, cabbage, onion, carrot…

To make the game meaningful, you can introduce a rule: whoever makes a mistake is out of the game. Then the most attentive will remain at the end.

So, we looked at examples of English games for schoolchildren and toddlers that can be used in teaching English. Remember: the more lessons the teacher conducts in a playful way, the more interest in learning the language appears in children. And the more interest, the easier the learning process is given.

Funny memos in Russian

We present to your attention funny memos in Russian for 15 spelling, orthoepy and grammar rules.

Literate speech, both oral and written, immediately betrays an educated and well-read person. Everyone dreams of speaking and writing without mistakes! Of course, only the owner of rare encyclopedic knowledge can achieve a 100% result. However, making your speech cleaner, not cutting your ear is an easy task: and you should start by avoiding at least the most common mistakes in it.

In this article, prepared specifically for the Day of the Russian Language, we tried to put together a few "popular" difficult cases, which are often stumbled not only by children, but also by quite serious adults - in television programs, films, and the media. And in order to remember the rules even a kid could do, we decided to put them in a poetic form.

1. Particle NOT with verbs is written separately. NOT - the verb is not a friend, They are always standing apart. And write them together - They will never understand you! (E. Intyakova)
2. HE and NI particles Oh, how similar NOT and NOR! But still they are different. No matter how cunning, no matter how wise, Do not confuse NO and NO!
3. -TSYA/-TSYA in verbs In a winter evening, starry, quiet What is snow doing? Spinning. And it's time for tomorrow What should everyone do? Go to sleep. (E. Intyakova)
4. The stress in the personal forms of the verb "call" falls on the sound I. My Dunno Neighbor Moans, His phone doesn't ring. The sly apparatus is silent, Waiting for someone to call. (I. Ageeva)
5. Put on (what?) clothes; dress (who?) Nadezhda Nadia girl WEAR Put on three dresses boldly, Cloak put on and coat - No one gets cold! I began to dress the doll, Collect for a walk. "It's getting hot - Moms! Should I take off my mittens?" (E. Intyakova)
6. Come - I will come - I can't come to you And I won't go to school. “But what happened? Tell! - I can come. I will come. (E. Intyakova)
7. The verb "to go" in the imperative mood Green light, Bear, You don't go And don't go, And never ride - GO! Remember? - Yes!
8. The verb “put” is used without prefixes, and “(to) lay down” - only with prefixes. No food, no lie, And yes, you can't push it. And you can put and put - Remember, friends! (E. Intyakova)
9. Will I win or will I run? The verb "to win" in the future tense has only a complex form (to win, to become a winner). “How can I go to a competition, how can I run everyone there! I will win it without effort, if I endure enough! “Don’t brag, literate, but quickly master the language. You must know the rules in order to win! (E. Intyakova)
To read this to me, To become the smartest at once! The same as Masha, I'll write in a notebook, Also tomorrow, like Masha, I'll get a five! Also I will go to the market, How I walked last year, I'll buy myself a cow there, Also horse and goat. (E. Intyakova)
11. Half words (half a room, half a world, half a watermelon, half a lemon, half a Moscow) Now it has become clear to us, Let's never forget: The word POL with any consonant It is always written fluently. Before "L" and before a vowel, Before capital letter The word FLOOR is clear to anyone - Separated by a dash. (I. Aseeva)
12. The genitive plural of nouns "socks", "stockings", "boots", "shoes" "Stockings" and "socks" obey a simple rule: the shorter, the longer. Short socks - long word: socks (6 letters) Long stockings - short word: stocking (5 letters) And about “shoes” and “boots”, we invite you to remember a funny quatrain: One pair of fashion shoes It costs like a huge truffle. But leather boots I bought as much as I could! (E. Intyakova) At the same time, you can learn the spelling of the single letter H in the word "leather" (the same is true for other adjectives with the AN/YAN suffix). Exceptions are easy to remember by looking at the usual window : wood, glass, tin.
13. O or Yo? In stressed suffixes of nouns -ONK-, -ONOK- (girl, skirt, galchonok, teddy bear) the letter O is written. A bear cub was walking through the forest, A wolf cub met him: – There is a crowd of girls in the forest The whole spilled barrel, Full of berries, tasty, ripe. Grab the raspberries! (E. Intyakova)
14. Cakes - Shorts: the stress in all forms of both words falls on the first syllable. Long ate cakes – The shorts didn't fit. Learn more 4 5 word sentences How to write letter sounds What is grl reading level Long descriptive words Alphabet letters lowercase Story about dinosaurs for preschoolers Read this when ideas Games to improve writing skills Describing word games Tales for all How to determine reading level of a text